idle是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 懒散的, 无所事事的; 空闲的; 无用的, 无效的;，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.
-- Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Lorry had been idle a long time, and had just poured out his last glassful of wine with as complete an appearance of satisfaction as is ever to be found in an elderly gentleman of a fresh complexion who has got to the end of a bottle, when a rattling of wheels came up the narrow street, and rumbled into the inn-yard.
-- She is everything to me; more to me than suffering, more to me than wrong, more to me Well!This is idle talk.'
-- The corner being out of the way of the idle and curious, and the preparations having been very simple and few, the Doctor, Mr. Lorry, and Miss Pross, were left quite alone.
-- If the suddenness of her calamity, and the whirling wheels of the time, had stunned the Doctor's daughter into awaiting the result in idle despair, it would but have been with her as it was with many.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter 5 Stepan Arkadyevitch had learned easily at school, thanks to his excellent abilities, but he had been idle and mischievous, and therefore was one of the lowest in his class.
-- The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
-- These were idle considerations-- beside the point.
-- "But do tell me, please, I never could make it out," said Anna, after being silent for some time, speaking in a tone that showed she was not asking an idle question, but that what she was asking was of more importance to her than it should have been; "do tell me, please, what are her relations with Prince Kaluzhsky, Mishka, as he's called?
-- The landowner unmistakably spoke his own individual thought--a thing that very rarely happens--and a thought to which he had been brought not by a desire of finding some exercise for an idle brain, but a thought which had grown up out of the conditions of his life, which he had brooded over in the solitude of his village, and had considered in every aspect.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For in unfolding to you the story of my life, I do not wish to make myself a laughing-stock before these idle listeners, who indeed know all about it already, but I am looking for a man of feeling and education.
-- 'I certainly am idle and depraved, but your sister has such qualities that even I could not help being impressed by them.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I can recollect, indeed, tohave speculated, at odd times, on the possibility of my not beingtaught any more, or cared for any more; and growing up to be ashabby moody man, lounging an idle life away, about the village;as well as on the feasibility of my getting rid of this picture bygoing away somewhere, like the hero in a story.
-- 'The boy will be idle there.'
-- But, to be sure, hewould be idle here or anywhere, in my opinion.'
-- What an idle time it was!What an unsubstantial, happy, foolishtime it was!
-- What an idle time!What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time!Ofall the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that inone retrospect I can smile at half so much, and think of half sotenderly.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!But if, which I rather imagine, your making the match, as you call it, means only your planning it, your saying to yourself one idle day, 'I think it would be a very good thing for Miss Tay-lor if Mr. Weston were to marry her,' and saying it again to yourself every now and then afterwards, why do you talk of success?
-- They were now approaching the cottage, and all idle top-ics were superseded.
-- 'Yes; all the advantages of sitting still when he ought to move, and of leading a life of mere idle pleasure, and fancy-ing himself extremely expert in finding excuses for it.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The change from the customary spot and necessary occasion of such an act from the dressing hour in a bedroom to a time of travelling out of doors lent to the idle deed a novelty it did not intrinsically possess.
-- To the shepherd, the note of the sheep-bell, like the ticking of the clock to other people, is a chronic sound that only makes itself noticed by ceasing or altering in some unusual manner from the well-known idle twinkle which signifies to the accustomed ear, however distant, that all is well in the fold.
-- Gabriel's hand, which had lain for some time idle in his smock-frock pocket, touched his flute which he carried there.
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